Print in Place Hinge in Fusion 360

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In this tutorial I go over a design technique to create successful print in place hinges in Fusion 360. We design and 3D a quick minimalistic phone stand but you can use this technique for a variety of projects. Enjoy!

[@makingwithanedj]

I love how that hinge popped off the spring steel and folded right up without any need to "coax" it. You really have that Prusa Mini dialed in!

[@DesktopMakes]

Thanks Ed! Yeah, I found that very satisfying and was glad I recorded it.

[@WPGinfo]

Nice video! The Z-shaped line 2:26 is a very effective solution as it both separates the hinge parts and keeps thing vertically centered... neat!

[@siliconghost]

Very handy tutorial. I needed to do a print-in-place hinge and didn't realize how easy it would be. Your tutorial is perfect and makes total sense.

[@DesktopMakes]

Thanks Mangan Labs! Glad it was helpful!

[@jamiee182]

The stand on our baby monitor broke so I've been playing around with the idea of printing a case for it that would act as a stand with a print in place hinge but thought it would be way too hard. You have made this look so simple and do-able. Thanks! I'm going to give it a go.

[@busivantiger9375]

Thanks very much - you teached me most of my fusion 360 skills. 😊

[@jeremymoller1038]

This was a great tutorial! Solidworks is all I've really used the last few years so this was a great example to show the layout and application of tools in fusion. I definitely need to print some print in place tests and dial in my printer and slicer settings too.

[@markustube]

That was an amazing approach! Maybe it's just me, but I was shocked that the press/pull operation created that rounded edge to match the "to" object. I mean it makes sense, but for some reason I wasn't expecting it to behave that way. Anyway, very nicely done... as always 👍

[@AmirRachum]

Great tutorial, I used to to create some hinges myself :) Straight and to the point. Thank you!

[@SlaterTech]

This was great! I'm trying to design my first print in place assembly, and this provided a lot of useful info. Thanks for sharing!

[@ermaolaoye]

This thing is absolutely amazing!!!! It saved my coursework!!!!

[@ToddRafferty]

Amazing tutorial, thank you so much

[@independent900]

Excellent video, good pace, lots of new info for me.

[@mcongmail7278]

Thank you very much for this video. Very helpful!

[@automaticprojects]

Clever project and great video.

[@viyugunmj359]

Really nice idea

[@beqwaam]

Great video! Again!

[@gurnaman7001]

Thanks for sharing!

[@noweare1]

You seem to know the best approach to take to make the design flow easy. Maybe that comes with experience. I end up having way to many sketches in my design but I guess that doesn't hurt anything.

[@DesktopMakes]

Yeah, it gets better time. Just keep at it.

[@Imercor1]

Excellent video as always.

[@DesktopMakes]

Thanks Jeff!

[@yaldoshelelohim5564]

thank you straight to the point

[@DesktopMakes]

Glad you enjoyed it.

[@SooGuy1968]

That was very cool tutorial and easy to follow. Going to have to try it out. Any tips on making a hinge that only opens partially - meaning doesn't fold all the way back?

[@AM-jw1lo]

Good Video. Since the gap isn't defined, you could have a pre video making a print test of gap settings. That way with one print people could determine what their printers can get away with. My printer gets stuck between .1 and .15 so I will use Fusion (and your method) to do a test 1.2 to 2.4 with 7 segments, like a fidget spinner and a hex key center to break them free. Thanks

[@yonekhadvash-nimrod]

great soulotion. thanks

[@DesktopMakes]

Thanks Nimrod Segev!

[@graphguy]

Nice!

[@GHILLIESARCADEANDMORE]

Cool

[@waynefilkins8394]

I couldn't get it working for my 45 degree angel hinge project...just can't find a way to print it. I did apply it to another project though and made the entire hinge scalable. There are parameters for hinge length and diameter, and number of hinges. You put in these 3 params and the whole hinge scales. Couldn't have done it without this video though! This one, to teach this kind of hinges, and another one that teaches about parameters and a different type of hinges. It's amazing how much you can learn online, college is becoming far less useful.

[@totoffe6234]

Merci pour cette réalisation étant débutant de Fusion 360 j'ai pu réaliser mon premier support encore merci. Dommage que je sais pas réaliser un style de Voronoi avec cura

[@nmore69]

How does the hinge stay in place ? Awesome Design ( sorry new to 3D printing )

[@waynefilkins8394]

O sht that's gonna be a stronger hinge than the one I'm using. My current hinge is bridging a thin cylinder through the middle. It's stronger than expected but I think this one will be stronger

[@robotwolf]

When I tried to dimension the line in Sketch 2 that's sitting on the x axis, I got a popup about over-dimensioning. My constraints are the same.

[@BlownUpp]

Does anyone know if Solidworks can do that thing with limiting the extrusion around another object?

[@davidfeldman5038]

The hinge is 7mm. The sides are 3mm, not half of 7mm. That threw me because I thought the extruded sides were tangent to the hinge. They are not. When I thought about it the sides need to be thiner than half of the hinge so it can close all the way.

[@matdl5472]

What happens to the overhang of the shaft?

[@davecrabbe4579]

Does this need to be printed flat? I’m thinking this won’t work if printed vertically (hinge is column that goes upwards). Did you ever try to print vertically to see what happens?

[@johnbickford9221]

Just so you know KZbin is defaulting to 360p and as such the text in dialog boxes and menus are blurry. Still watchable, though.

[@DesktopMakes]

Thanks John. It looks like youtube is still processing the HD video. I'm not sure why it is taking so long. This is usually a quick process. I'll try re-uploading if it doesn't get fixed soon.

[@johnbickford9221]

@@DesktopMakes I guess that's what happens when I watch too soon! I know the feeling.

[@HelmutQ]

Very nice video. I have two questions: 1. How do I export both bodies to Cura as an STL file so as to print them intertwined in one go. 2. How do I suppress the top and bottom layers so as to disclose the attractive infill.

[@HelmutQ]

I found the answer to question one. Do not export direktly into slicer but use export to export all bodies together locally on computer and oben directly in Cura. I printed it and it moved with 0.5 mm tolerances.

[@DesktopMakes]

Hi Helmut, I plan to do a follow up video on this but essentially 1) you right-click on the the top of your browser (file name) and click on Save as Mesh. This will save all the visible bodies. Check out this video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rHOxgI17qtiWr9U 2)In your Slicer settings, there will be an option for number of top and bottom layers. Set both to 0.

[@HelmutQ]

@@DesktopMakes Thanks a lot. I managed to print the movable parts flawlessly. Nice marginally useful gadget for watching KZbin videos on the phone on the tabletop, or having video chats totally handsfree. I really enjoy your classes. They are neither too advanced, nor too trivial. You make my new hobby real fun.

[@lindam.8113]

was curious to see how you make the filling of the sides :( sadly u don't show.

[@benlefler6304]

יאאווו ישראלים

[@waynefilkins8394]

Is there a way to do this where it only opens 90 degrees? I have created one but I have to put a metal bar in the hinge. Print in place seems to use bridging and has to be printed wide open (180 degrees) and I can't figure out how to design my 90 degree open item using print in place, any advice would be very helpful!

[@waynefilkins8394]

I think maybe using those cone hinges I can get this to work...If I do the angles just right.. cone hinges...how did I not think of that???